JasonH
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OK. Here goes. A little while back approximately 4 weeks ago, I performed a major display tank and sump, along with all equipment cleaning. During my cleaning I happen to jar loose one of the main rocks in my display. So to keep it from falling I grabbed ahold of it I took it out of the water dried off the base applied some superglue and attempted to reattach it. However, luck was just not on my side and I had to in-turn remodel a little bit on the left portion of my display. Without fault I began the process of making my fresh RODI salt water to do a 25% water change. I do this percent water change on a weekly basis sometimes bi weekly. I change my RODI filters and my resin as needed once my TDS shows one ppm. But as I made my water I noticed that it was replenishing my 30 gallon reserve tank and I was reading one part per million TDS. I became nervous as in the past when this has happened I would get a small outbreak of algae until I got my reserve water back with a 0 reading having replaced filters. Needless to say I finish my maintenance with the water I had mixed. So probability is that some of the one part per million TDS was now involved in my water change.
Now comes the hard part. The next morning I found my yellow tank floating dead. I immediately called the LFS and discussed the situation. I began to think that the issue was stress due to change in the rockwork. I maintain this thought for the next couple days and began to notice that the pigment in my 2 clown fish seemed to be fading on the upper portion of their body. My immediate cause for concern I reached out to be very helpful individual and she gave me some great advice. I believe that the situation may have been Brooklynella. Since I could not get the recommended 37% Formallin mixture to help combat the illness I got one of the alternates and started the treatment process. I was on able to capture all of my remaining fish however I did capture my Orange clown fish and put her in a QT. I continued to monitor all of the fish both main display and quarantine tank for the next couple days. In that time I lost my black male clown fish and then a day later my Orange clown fish. Throughout this treatment process I was caught off guard when I noticed that my posilipora seemed to be bleaching out. It was almost as if the meat on the skeleton was shedding off. So I panicked and immediately started mixing up more salt water to do another water change thinking that I was missing some other issue. While 2 days later the coral was completely bleached and no evidence of any meaty substance left on the skeleton. And I also noticed that now my bird's nest coral was starting to bleach out and seemed to be shedding its meaty layer. Finally, yesterday I lost my Royal gramma. In my tank I currently have a hammer, a frog spawn, a huge bubble coral, 3 different pieces of acro pora, a riccordia mushroom, and various green with blue spot mushrooms. I also have a few various zoas and polyps. (See attached pics). None of the remaining corals seem to have any distinguishable signs of infection. I have also since changed my RODI filters including the color changing resin. Besides continuing with frequent water changes I am totally baffled as to what is going on. Can anyone help?
This This tank has been up and running now for almost 2 years. All of my parameters are within the normal range. I have checked numerous times now since the onset of this situation.
Thank you in advance,
Jason
Now comes the hard part. The next morning I found my yellow tank floating dead. I immediately called the LFS and discussed the situation. I began to think that the issue was stress due to change in the rockwork. I maintain this thought for the next couple days and began to notice that the pigment in my 2 clown fish seemed to be fading on the upper portion of their body. My immediate cause for concern I reached out to be very helpful individual and she gave me some great advice. I believe that the situation may have been Brooklynella. Since I could not get the recommended 37% Formallin mixture to help combat the illness I got one of the alternates and started the treatment process. I was on able to capture all of my remaining fish however I did capture my Orange clown fish and put her in a QT. I continued to monitor all of the fish both main display and quarantine tank for the next couple days. In that time I lost my black male clown fish and then a day later my Orange clown fish. Throughout this treatment process I was caught off guard when I noticed that my posilipora seemed to be bleaching out. It was almost as if the meat on the skeleton was shedding off. So I panicked and immediately started mixing up more salt water to do another water change thinking that I was missing some other issue. While 2 days later the coral was completely bleached and no evidence of any meaty substance left on the skeleton. And I also noticed that now my bird's nest coral was starting to bleach out and seemed to be shedding its meaty layer. Finally, yesterday I lost my Royal gramma. In my tank I currently have a hammer, a frog spawn, a huge bubble coral, 3 different pieces of acro pora, a riccordia mushroom, and various green with blue spot mushrooms. I also have a few various zoas and polyps. (See attached pics). None of the remaining corals seem to have any distinguishable signs of infection. I have also since changed my RODI filters including the color changing resin. Besides continuing with frequent water changes I am totally baffled as to what is going on. Can anyone help?
This This tank has been up and running now for almost 2 years. All of my parameters are within the normal range. I have checked numerous times now since the onset of this situation.
Thank you in advance,
Jason
